Recently, Professor Toni Carbo received the Association for Information Science & Technology Award of Merit, which is the highest honor presented by the Association. The award recognizes an individual who has made noteworthy and sustained contributions to the Information Science field. Professor Carbo successfully led the iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh for over 16 years. During her tenure as dean she has enhanced curriculum standards, in addition to increasing ethnic, gender and cultural diversity at the University of Pittsburgh through intra- and inter- university initiatives. Dr. Carbo will accept her award at the 2018 meeting of the association of Information Science & Technology which will be held in Vancouver, Canada on November 10-14 of 2018.